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AaronSw: New, from O'Reilly.
AaronSw: Also, BEEP: The Definitive Guide is out.
AaronSw: Rael wants YOU to attend the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
AaronSw: "Mostly Pointless Lamp Switching (MPLampS) is an architecture for carrying electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane). According to our marketing department, MPLampS has the potential to dramatically lower the price, ease the distribution and usage, and improve the manageability of delivering electricity."
AaronSw: "While reading this document, at various points the readers may have the urge to ask questions like, "does this make sense?", "is this feasible?," and "is the author sane?". The readers must have the ability to suppress such questions and read on."
AaronSw: Using their system, "Electricity can be routed over the Internet to reach remote places which presently do not have electricity connections but have only Internet kiosks (e.g., rural India)."
AaronSw: "This document describes the Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (BLOAT): a reformulation of a widely-deployed network-layer protocol (IP), and two associated transport layer protocols (TCP and UDP) as XML applications."